Driving with Dead People : A Memoir (Paperback)

from lcrouch

I thought this book beautifully written and moving. How the author/heroine is able to overcome the family dysfunction and sexual abuse is truly amazing. Her salvation turns out to be the local undertaker's daughter. That family provided a safe a sane haven, possibly without even suspecting the pr...

from hammockqueen

although a dark book, Monica Holloway told it with the humor often found in the hurting. Such a tragic family.....talk of dysfunction! I don't know how people even survive these situations. Father an abuser, mother denies any problems and leaves at first chance, leaving kids at home with no money...

from mahallett

sad story of family. we all suffer from our families but they give us good things too--usually. we can use the good to overcome the bad. as holloway says the bad are like cracks. we all have cracks. we have to learn how to patch the cracks and keep the building up.

from Lallybroch

I loved this book! It seems that a lot of the memoirs I've read lately have had main characters who did nothing but whine and complain about their terrible childhood and how it wrecked their lives. This was not the case in Driving with Dead People. Monica Holloway was brutally honest in telling h...

from burnit99

A memoir by Monica Holloway, who as a child is fascinated by the local funeral home, and with her best friend loves to take turns lying in their favorite coffins in the casket showroom. Hers is a dysfunctional family, with a violent, abusive father and a mother who denies and covers it all up. Mo...